Bitfields and flags, alturnitives

[crazymonkyyy]

so you abstract packed bool in the left over space of an int(or pointer); you want to name this bits user defined names and I also want to get some sort of switch statement pattern working

Walter claims that "bitfields without being in the compiler polluted the structs Fields!S ...(but upstream inst actually able to print bitfields writeln rn anyway, so what does it matter)

so, you want these c pattern to get nice names and the way you implement it to not be hostile to further meta programming(such as letting a writeln work)

what are the real options?, Walter isnt a meta programmer and while phoboes.bitswhatever could be bad I haven't tried

Im pretty sure phoboes.flag is terrible by all accounts

if you narrowed the scope to be only flags + leftover int; could it be made simpler, have writeln, have a switch friendly primitive?